Yearly Archives: 2015
While running Trail of Cthulhu for the first time might be intimidating, never fear – there are a wealth of resources to guide you through your first games: New Trail of Cthulhu Keeper questions and advice on Yog-Sothoth.com GUMSHOE 101, Kevin Kulp’s helpful overview of GUMSHOE The Enchiridion of Elucidation, a guidebook for both players […]
Iconic Adventures! The Battle Scenes series offers icon-themed adventures for the 13th Age, at all levels of play, packed with dangerous hand-picked foes on terrifying terrain. All Battle Scenes books include: Ideas on how to get the PCs into the story, and possible outcomes that result from their actions. Encounters that pit the PCs against […]
The blurb for Goëtia, or, the Summoning of Demons, which is the upcoming issue of Ken Writes About Stuff, mentions three demons: Bifrons, Glasya-Labolas, and Marchosias. Not these guys. Three other guys. Unfortunately, as we (or rather, as Simon, and you, and Cat, and everyone but me) learned with the Voodoo kerfuffle, writing up a […]
In the latest episode of their ENnie-winning podcast, Ken and Robin talk School of Night, whiskey war, scene transitions, and the Illuminati hotel room.
Download the orcish rafting adventure featured in this article here. Read the ThawCon Preparation article here. My 13th Age game was prepped, and my old AD&D group were ready for 22 hours of gaming. My prime concern was getting combat to run as quickly and smoothly as possible. I knew the rest would be straightforward. […]
Dreamhounds of Paris already stretches Trail of Cthulhu’s default time frame by covering events of the surrealist movement from the 1920s. While researching the book I found some details ripe for Lovecraftian parallel that fell on the other side of the time divide. Although the surrealist movement never recovers from the Occupation and the flight […]
You will surely not employ professional killers to slay galactic arch-villain Quandos Vorn. What he did to you was too cruel, too awful, to allow you to take your sworn vengeance from a remove. However, prowling after him will require you to move in his circles—a milieu also swimming with murderers-for-hire. As many others wish […]
The above comic strip depicts a character saying a dumb and wrongheaded thing in response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre. It was conceived as a critique of the character’s stance. The Birds features a cast of twisted characters who regularly say dumb and wrongheaded things. This strip caused unnecessary hurt among French gamers, many of […]
Eyes of the Stone Thief, the megadungeon campaign for 13th Age Roleplaying Game, is out now! Trapped In The Stone Thief To the Stone Thief, people are the irritating meaty grist in the delicious cities it consumes. Most of the unlucky souls swallowed by the dungeon are crushed to death, or fall victim to one of […]